Natural Gas Forward Basis Prices

Announcing NGI's Forward Look

Does your job depend on the market's assessment for where the price of natural gas may go for this month and next, or maybe for the summer strip (storage injection season) or winter strip (storage withdrawal season)? Looking for an unbiased assessment of potential natural gas future prices, based on all available market information, from a name you can trust? You've just found it...

NGI has just launched a daily service called Forward Look that charts, using forward curves and tabular data, the future price of physical natural gas at 35 key trading locations around the country. NGI's Forward Look offers both fixed and basis forward natural gas prices 5+ years out and historical data back to 2012--to feed your price models and algorithms.

Choose from 2 Special Introductory Offers:

Subscribe to receive both the PDF and online web access for an introductory price of just $195 for three months.

Subscribe to receive the PDF, web access and historical data (Excel file) for an introductory price of just $1,200 for six months.

Who Uses Forward Look... and Why?

Utilities use Forward Look to help plan for and time purchases. Price forecasting is a critical function for LDCs. The right decisions avoid surprise rate increase filings.

Traders use Forward Look to optimize trading execution. Knowing what the natural gas price is likely to do next month--or even next year--guides trading decisions made now. Billions of dollars are at stake.

Industrial Buyers utilize Forward Look to establish best practice acquisition of your natural gas supply. The basis price for natural gas at pipelines in the northeast Marcellus often trades at a $1-$2 differential to the Henry Hub. Buying gas cheaply is important for large users.

Consultants use Forward Look to guide their clients in decisions ranging from where to site a plant to new pipeline construction.

Accounting departments at upstream and midstream companies use Forward Look to provide accurate valuations of their assets--the gas in the ground. They need to file accurate reports with FERC and the SEC reflecting asset value.

Anyone who needs to know the market's current expectation about where prices will go over the next 12 months, based on all known and available information in place today.

What's in a Forward Look Subscription?

1. Daily PDF with two tables of tabular data--one for fixed prices and the other for basis prices--that show precise values for this month, next month, the rest of the current period, and the next two trading season--
winter and summer strips. Click to Download a Sample PDF Newsletter

3. Historical data (optional) offers users access to data for use in your models. NGI offers price data for up to nine years (depending on the trading location), available in an easy-to-download Excel format. Click to Download a Sample of Premium XLS Data

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